Tag: region

The spring banquet season for conservation groups across the region is in full swing, and besides raising money for good causes, the events are a good way to bridge the gap between winter and spring, the “tween season” when activities requiring ice and snow are on the wane, but spring options are limited. Of the… Read More

The prairie landscape will be the focus of Grand Forks Audubon’s February meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday night at Choice Health and Fitness. Kevin Gietzen, district conservationist with USDA in Grand Forks, will talk about “prairie” and what makes it unique, why it’s a concern, and what is being done and what can be done.… Read More

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has postponed the advisory board meetings scheduled for tonight and tomorrow in Berthold, Hankinson, Jamestown and Bismarck for two weeks because of inclement weather. The meetings in Berthold and Hankinson are rescheduled for Monday, Dec. 12; and Bismarck and Jamestown are rescheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 13. Game and… Read More

The Great Pumpkin Adventure is underway. Rick Swenson, a Fergus Falls, Minn., man who grows giant pumpkins, departed from the boat ramp below Riverside Dam in Grand Forks on Saturday morning paddling a giant pumpkin. Now that’s something you don’t see every day. Swenson is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the longest pumpkin… Read More

Your chance at getting a deer gun license in North Dakota for this fall’s hunting season officially are history. The North Dakota Game and Fish Department this morning said all 49,000 deer gun licenses allocated by governor’s proclamation have been issued. A limited number of antlerless tags had remained in southwest North Dakota units after… Read More

Posts navigation

ABOUT

A native of Roseau, Minn., Brad Dokken graduated from Roseau High School in 1979. He then attended Bemidji State University, where he graduated in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and a minor in vocal music. Dokken was managing editor of the BSU’s student newspaper, the Northern Student, and helped launch regular outdoors coverage in the publication. He worked at the Wadena (Minn.) Pioneer-Journal from August 1984 until becoming a copy editor for the Herald’s Agweek magazine in November 1985. He migrated from Agweek to the the copy desk at the Herald in July 1989 and has been the Herald’s outdoors writer since 1998.